Summer break had now begun, but Sakura was still heading to UA for the summer classes that the school had offered up. The pinkette had abandoned her school jacket due to the rising heat, and her thigh socks followed suited to only be replaced with spandex.
While waiting for their teacher to arrive, Sakura had wandered over to Todoroki's desk, asking for his left hand. When the said boy placed his hand on top of her waiting ones, the pinkette adjusted it so she had it on her cheek.
" It's hot," Sakura whined. " Can you...?"
Todoroki nodded, and soon after, frost appeared on his palm and fingertips, drawing a sigh out of Sakura. However, when Aizawa finally came in, the girl reluctantly went back to her own seat.
" In this class, you'll fight and try to capture a hypothetical villain." Aizawa informed, and soon, Midoriya, Sakura, and along with Uraraka jumped up from their desk in excitement. " The three of you, sit down. As I was saying, in the world, there are many different types of crimes and today you'll be determining what happened at a crime scene. Your special instructors will be..."
Suddenly, a familiar booming voice rang out through the classroom. " I am here, coming through the back door!"
" All Might!" Sakura pumped her fists in the air. " Lets get this exercise running!"
Uraraka laughed as All Might posed for them. " Muscles!"
" It won't just be All Might today. The rest of your teachers, Midnight, Cementoss, and Present Mic will also be taking part in this exercise." Aizawa continued on as the said teachers showed up at the front of the room. " Now go change and meet us at Ground Beta."
" Come on Sakura-chan, Tsu, lets go!" Uraraka ushered to the two girls once the teachers had left.
All three girls, along with Iida, Midorya, Bakugou, and Todoroki went over to the changing room to get dressed into their costumes. Once they had all finished, together as a group they made their way over to where Aizawa had told them to go. However, none of them rushed into where the crime scene was.
" Okay, I can see the police cutouts so I'm guessing that's where all the action is taking place." Midoriya observed.
" I'm telling you guys the situation right now and I won't repeat myself." Aizawa said, coming out from the shadows. " There has been a robbery at a jewelry store. All the customers and employees had been taken hostages while also being barricade inside. Number of villains and hostages are unknown. You've been asked by the police to come and resolve the situation."
Behind Sakura, Iida raised his hand. " I have a question! Are the teachers-"
" I will not be taking any questions." Aizawa plainly said, causing Iida to drop his hands back to his side instantly. " You guys will be verifying this crime on your own and solve the case. The capture training begins now."
As Aizawa stepped back to allow the students space, Midoriya took charge. " What we need to know is the amount of villains and hostages are in the building before we take on any other action that includes combat."
" Sakura, can use your Quirk to climb on the wall to get closer to the window?" Todoroki asked. " If we go in all at once the villains will notice."
Sakura quietly walked over to the side of the jewelry store and guided a portion of her Quirk into the soles of her feet. With experience, the pinkette silently started to walked on the building's wall, slowly making her way to the windows. Seeing Midnight, Present Mic, and Cementoss all tied up, Sakura looked back to where the other students where at and held out three fingers.
Iida responded to Sakura's gesture by forming T with his hands, telling her to stand by. Suddenly, the pinkette saw Bakugou abruptly stand up, glaring at the students surrounding him. From the way the blonde was making his way over to the building, Sakura knew he was being difficult, as always.
Before Sakura knew it, Bakugou had launched into the air, hands behind him so he was airborne by his explosions. When the boy brought one of his hand forward, he blasted the front of the building, causing the pinkette to jump back onto the ground and run to where Bakugou was.
" What are you thinking Fiecracker?!" Sakura scolded. " What if the villain had one of-"
Sakura stopped dead-short when she saw what the state the said villain was in. There was no doubt that All Might was the one posing as the villain, but it wasn't that fact that, caused the girl to stop talking. It was that All Might was covered in blood.
" The hell?" Bakugou narrowed his eyes. " I barely even did anything to him and he's already dead."
" For all we know, your reckless explosion could have knocked him dead." Sakura accused as she crossed her arms and stared up at the blonde with a raised eyebrow. Bakugou snorted and placed a hand on the pinkette's head, turning her around.
" He's not actually dead. I think he's just -ribbit- suppose to act dead for this situation." Asui informed when she used her hair to tickle All Might and the pro let out a grunt.
Iida walked over to a blood covered knife and kneeled down netx to it. However, he didn't touch it. " Well, it's obvious that this is the murder weapon. But what's bothering me is that, if the villain didn't die from Bakugou's explosion and no one could possibly have gone in since the place is surrounded by police, one of the hostages did it."
" Wait, lets hear the hostages out first." Midoriya said, making his way over to Cementoss to untied the pro. " Who are you and what were you doing?"
The students crowded around Cementoss to hear him out, but they had also secure the other hostages near them so that no one could escape. When Cementoss finished explaining that he was an employee, Todoroki untied Midnight next.
" I came in to buy some jewelry, but when I got here, the villain was already in." Midnight declared with a flare of the dramatic. " He then tied me up while I was still too shock to act."
Sakura then turned to the last of the hostage, Present Mic, and untied him. " And you are?"
" Yo, I'm a musician, and I came here buy an engagement ring, yo, for my girl. But then the villain came in and hit me with a surprise attack before he tied me up as well, yo." Present Mic explained, causing Sakura to turn back to her classmates.
" Well, it seems that everyone has a normal reason for being here, nothing strange." Sakura said.
" Was the musician in here when the villain first came in?" Todoroki asked Cementoss to confirm the alibi, and after receiving a nod, the boy turned over to Midnight. " And will you confirm that both the employee and the musician was here when you arrived?"
Midnight thought for a second before replying. " Yes, I saw them placed into different part of the store while I was being tied up."
" Excuse me, can we see you wallets?" Midoriya asked, speaking up.
As Midnight and Present Mic held out their wallet, and Sakura reached for them before giving one to Asui. " Nice thinking. Judging from the amount of money in their wallets, we'll be able to determine if they were actually planning on buying anything from here. Present Mic wallet is full, how is it with Midnight's?"
" It's fill with bunch of credit cards -ribbit- so I think she's fine." Asui replied.
Suddenly, Bakugou charged into the crowd of people. " The damn villain is dead, and the culprit has to be one of them!"
" And what would their motive be for doing that?" Todoroki asked, causing the blonde boy to turn around and face him with a glare.
Sakura sighed as she surveyed the hostages again. " I think Shouto's right, Firecracker. Even if the case was that one of them wanted the stolen jewelry that the villain had, it was too reckless to have kill him right here where there's a bunch of polices and coming pro heroes."
" Tch." Bakugou said, continuing to glare at Todoroki for a few more seconds before angrily looking away. " Whatever."
" Maybe the motive had something to -ribbit- do with some internal conflict." Asui pointed out. " If there was two villains instead -ribbit- of one, they could have been fighting on how to split the loot or something. And if that -ribbit- was the case, the hostages could've heard their argument."
" I didn't hear anything like that, yo! The villain was alone on this." Present Mic said, doing some leaps while the other hostages agreed with him.
" I checked the building, there's no back exit and all the windows are closed." Iida brought up after coming back from looking through the store. " The villain is confirmed to be acting alone."
Sakura leaned against a wall, torn between thoughts. They hadn't found any evidence that could lead them to the killer of the villain and it had been confirmed that there couldn't have been an internal conflict if there was no partner involve.
" Would it be best if we were to tell the police of the situation and let them deal with it? Or should we stay and solve this case since we know the culprit is in here with us?" Uraraka asked.
" Then, we should just force the confession out of them!" Bakugou declared, his hands sparking
Sakura rushed in front of Bakugou, holding her hand out so Bakugou wouldn't suddenly go charging at the hostages. " Come on Firecracker, lets think about this rationally. Beside, if you do that, the police will end up arresting you."
Bakugou threw the pinkette a glare, but as he continued on looking into the girl's determined eyes, he growled and turn around. He shifted his gaze over to Midoriya and snarled. " Hey, damn Deku, you have a thought or something right? Well spit it out you shit!"
" W-Well, yeah. Something have been bothering me. Why did the villain barricade himself in the store?" Midoriya asked rhetorically. " If he had wanted the the jewelries he could have just escape right after."
" That's because while I was putting the jewelries into the bag like he ordered me to, the police arrived." Cementoss added in.
Sakura propped a hand under her chin in a thinking pose. " So were you the one who called the police?"
" No, it wasn't me." Cementoss replied. " It was someone outside of the store."
After awhile of thinking, Midoriya turned to Midnight. " Well, if that's the case then it had to be Midnight. It was you, isn't it? You were the only one to come in after the villain arrived. And I think that's the reason why the villain barricaded himself in. You knew the villain before all this, didn't you?"
From the way Midnight was avoiding eye contact and as well as hugging herself, Sakura knew that Midoriya was on to something. From there, Sakura already had an image on how things happened from the start.
" Correct me if I'm wrong Midnight, but my thought is that you knew him and his passion for crimes." Sakura drew out for everyone to see. " And you knew ahead of time about his plan to rob this store, you informed the police after he attacked and then went in on your own. The villain proceeded to carry on with the robbery even after seeing you, however, he was forced to barricade himself in since the police had also arrived. But why did you go through all that work?"
" Maybe because she wanted him to stop committing crime." Uraraka suggested.
Iida frowned as he gestured back to the supposed dead villain. " Then why's the villain dead? Midnight didn't have a motive to kill him."
" Yeah, you're right. She had no motive..." Midoriya said, leaving room for someone else to finish up what he was trying to say.
" ...Suicide." Todoroki concluded.
" Then, after figuring out Midnight's intention, the villain still wanted to escape. But we, playing as -ribbit- the pro heroes, came to the crime scene and the villain felt so overwhelm that he had -ribbit- no choice but to commit suicide." Asui said. " That's a bit sad."
However, Midoriya shook his head as he knelt down. " No, the villain was thinking something else. He was thinking, If I get caught, my relationship with Midnight will be exposed. He knew if it was to be found out, Midnight would live in shadows. So in desperation, the villain sealed his fate."
" So Midnight didn't tell the truth because she had realized that those were All Might's thoughts as he gave his life up for her." Sakura gasped. The pinkette felt a pang in her heart as she look at the heart broken Midnight. And for a second, Sakura forgot that this was all acting.
" What's wrong?" Todoroki asked the girl when he noticed her pained expression.
Sakura offered him a sad smile. " Don't you feel sad as well? Midnight and the villain were in love and he gave his life for her. It's so heart wrenching."
" Midnight tried to save the villain because she loved him, but the villain tried to save Midnight because he loved her." Iida sighed.
" For it to end like this," Todoroki looked away. " How ironic."
Sakura glanced over at Midnight who was still in character, her eyebrows scrunched so that a hopeless look adorn her face. The pinkette felt a pang in her heart as she tried to imagine her world being torn between a lover and justice.
" And this is the truth behind the story of the jewelry robbery." Midoriya summed up, his head hanging.
Sakura looked up and wiped her teary eyes, and when she collected herself, she saw Aizawa coming toward them through the blasted door. Soon, Midnight, Cementoss, and Present Mic dropped their acting and got up from the ground.
" That was so fun!" Midnight exclaimed with a wide smile. " We should do something like this again!"
" Thanks you three for helping out. You guys can head back now." Aizawa told the three teachers before turning back to his students. " Everyone, good work on figuring out why the villain barricaded himself and the situation of the case. But you guys all over looked one thing. Your score for this class is zero points."
" What!?" Bakugou shouted, slamming his fist on a counter. " Why!?"
Aizawa gestured to the ground where All Might was laying, but when Sakura and along with the others turn toward the direction, All Might was nowhere to be found. Instantly, the pinkette ran outside right on time to see that All Might was running away.
" I'm fleeing to freedom! Good-bye heroes!" All Might called to them, giving them a wide grin.
" He was alive..!?" Sakura questioned.
" You all thought that he was dead so you didn't tie him up, that's why you lose." Aizawa drawled as he also walked away. " You guys didn't go through in the end. Didn't you notice when Asui tickled All Might? He gave you a hint by reacting to the tickling. Don't you guys know, corpses don't move. Special class dismissed."
Sakura clenched her fist. " I just thought All Might's acting was terrible!"
" Wait, if the villain was alive this whole time, then, was he pretending to have kill himself so that in the end he could escape?!" Iida asked, bring everyone's attention back on the matter. " Wouldn't that mean that we misunderstood, thinking he was doing it for Midnight, but instead it was for himself?"
Uraraka clutched a dumbfounded Sakura's arm. " Then, what about their love?"
Sakura fell to the ground slowly as her mind registered what had actually happen. She blinked once, then twice, then thrice before her eyes widened. She gradually got back on her feet, her eyes glowing green as she clenched the wall next to her.
" Their love...?" Todoroki trailed off, causing the pinkette to tightened her grip on the wall.
" There was no love!" Bakugou hissed between gritted teeth.
At this point, Sakura's emotion mixed with her Quirk, causing the building to swayed under her touch. She pulled back from the wall to only clenched her hands in a proper fist and strike the wall, creating a dent.
" Bubblegum, watch out!" Bakugou called out. " Move!"
Sakura looked up to see that the building's wall she had dented was collapsing. Her eyes widened before it closed tightly again, and out of reflex, she held out her hand in front of her, knowing she could take any injuries and heal them later. However, the pinkette felt herself being pushed to the side.
" What's wrong with you?!" Bakugou questioned as the pinkette opened her eyes again. " Why didn't you run?!"
The blonde had pushed Sakura out of the way while Todoroki had created a road of ice with a jagged surface so that the spikes had pierce the falling debris, stopping it from crashing onto the ground.
" Ah." Was all that Sakura could say. " My bad."
That day, Sakura left when the sun was just starting to set. She had said her good-byes to Asui, Iida, Uraraka, Midoriya, Todoroki, and Bakugou, but she still couldn't get today's class out of her mind. It wasn't the storyline that really got to her but the topic of love.
" Am I in love?" Sakura jokingly said out-loud to herself.
" Ah, young love!" A familiar voice popped up. " Hello, Cherry Blossom Of The Spring!"
Sakura fell into a suddenly crouch and covered her face all flustered. " What? Love? What's that? Who's in love?! A-All Might, it's not what you think!"
All Might grinned before going into one of his coughing fit, resulting in him turning back into his skinny form. While All Might recovered, Sakura got up and placed a hand on her heart, trying to calm herself from the fact that someone heard her.
" Love is love." All Might smiled, pushing a luggage in front of him. " You know about I-Island, right? Do you want to go with me?"
" S-Sure!" Sakura said, forgetting about the matter of love and turning to her knowledge of I-Island. " Isn't that the place where all the companies around the world invested in to create a sort of city for research of Quirks and hero support items?"
" Correct. Now lets pack your stuff, we're leaving right after we inform Young Midoriya as well." All might said.
" Right now?!" The pinkette exclaimed. " What's with the sudden rush?"
" Hurry Young Haruno, we still need to pick up Young Midoriya today." All Might added. " Oh, and you might also want to change out of your school uniform into something else. And bring formal wear as well, okay? I had also asked the school to allow you to bring your hero costume, here it is."
Sakura held up her hands and grin after taking the case from All Might. " Give me ten- no twenty minutes and I'll be out! But I'm warning you now that it may take thirty so you can go ahead and get Deku."
All Might gave the pinkette a nod and one last smile before turning back into his muscle form and racing off to the direction of Midoriya's home, leaving Sakura to start packing. Twenty-five minutes passed and Sakura was now waiting in front of her house for All Might.
This was going to be the start of her adventure on I-Island.